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ChainDive (チェインダイブ) is a 2003 PlayStation 2 action game by Alvion, released only in Japan. This patch translates the whole game into English.

What's translated
  • All story scenes, radio messages, mission goals and training text
  • All menus, help text, memory card messages and character names
  • Text in pictures: the controller layout, stage names and mission results
  • The training demo videos, plus subtitles for the dialogue in the opening and ending movies

How to patch
  1. You need your own ChainDive (Japan) ISO: SCPS-15054, a full 1:1 dump (Windows shows it as 1,203,424 KB). CHD or CSO? Convert it back to a plain ISO first.
  2. Drag the ISO onto ChainDivePatcher.exe. It checks your ISO and saves "ChainDive (English).iso" next to it; your original stays untouched. On Mac or Linux, use the included apply_patch.py.
  3. Play it in PCSX2, no special settings needed.

Download: ChainDive English v1.1

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Notes
  • Tested start to finish in PCSX2. A real PS2 should work too (for example, with Open PS2 Loader), but it hasn't been tested yet; reports are welcome!
  • I'm not a Japanese speaker and used a translation tool, so corrections from Japanese speakers are very welcome.
  • Known issues: slightly uneven spacing around some punctuation and in the menu help line.
No ISOs, please don't ask.

Japanese front cover (original)
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English front cover (made by bombaa)
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Japanese back cover (original)
back (Japanese scan).jpg


English back cover (made by bombaa)
back (ENGLISH PATCH scan).png


This is a solo project at the moment.

(Compressed trailer) made by bombaa


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PS1/2  Thread 'Chaindive PS2 Translation Patch?'

Does any know of the existence of an English translation of the text in Chaindive? I really enjoyed playing the import demo on the PlayStation Magazine Disc, Issue 79, as did one of my friends, the only thing I hate about this game is that it was never released outside of Japan. I find it hard to play, as I don't like playing games while not knowing the plot, and it would seem that a lot of effort went into the lengthy cutscenes, so it would be nice to understand them.
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You fucking HUH?????
 
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GallyBT51 said:
That is some... rough kerning. Why is the method of patching some random exe?

We have just released our own translation which doesn't have such issues:
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https://romhack.ing/database/content/entry/yKTC_8I_SIulQ8enpP5amg/chaindive-english-translation
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Hello, thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it a lot. I was still working on getting it to work with the xdelta patcher, so this is just a workaround for now.
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LanHikariDS said:
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I'VE LITERALLY BEEN WORKING ON THE KERNING THIS MONTH, WHAT THE FUCK?????
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Please don't give up on this, I know you have been working on it too. I am still excited about your release and progress.

I'm at a disadvantage in a sense since I am working on it on my own, but I was wondering what was possible and what was not.
 

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